From February 19-21th, ESL will be hosting an eight team international CS:GO tournament as well as the ESL Masters Spain, the National League of Legends championship, in the beautiful city of Barcelona.
Eight CS:GO teams, four international, two European and two Spanish, as well as eight local League of Legends teams will battle it out in their respective tournaments for a total prize pool of €80,000 across the two platforms CS:GO and League of Legends at the ESL Expo Barcelona presented by Mobile World Congress. The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament will use a format similar to the one from the Intel Extreme Masters held at gamescom, with each team being assigned three lives. Every defeat costs a life and the match winners get to pick which two teams will play next. The vote for the first series is currently on-going. In addition to Counter-Strike action this weekend, the ESL Masters Spain in League of Legends will be held at the three-day event.
Participants for the CS:GO event:
fnatic (Invited)
Vexed Gaming (EU qualifier)
Team EnVyUs (Invited)
Team Dignitas (EU qualifier)
Astralis (Invited)
x6tence (Spanish qualifier)
G2 eSports (Invited)
gBots (Spanish qualifier)
CS:GO event casters:
Oliver "OJ Borg" D'Anastasi - Host
Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk Host
Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Caster
Leigh "Deman" Smith - Caster
Henry "HenyG" Greer - Caster
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Caster
Jason "moses" O'Toole - Caster
Janko "YNk" Paunovic - Analyst
CS:GO event schedule, all times are CET (GMT+1):
Friday, February 19th
10:00 AM - Match #1
11:30 AM - Match #2
1:00 PM - Match #3
2:30 PM - Match #4
4:00 PM - Match #5
5:30 PM - Match #6
7:00 PM - Match #7
8:30 PM - Match #8
Saturday, February 20th
10:00 AM - Match #9
11:30 AM - Match #10
1:00 PM - Match #11
2:30 PM - Match #12
4:00 PM - Match #13
5:30 PM - Match #14
7:00 PM - Match #15
8:30 PM - Match #16
Sunday, February 21st
10:00 AM - Match #17
11:30 AM - Match #18
1:00 PM - Match #19
2:30 PM - Match #20
4:00 PM - Match #21
5:30 PM - Match #22
7:00 PM - Match #23
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